Photo: Mat Fascione · CC BY-SA 2.0Yeadon records bicycle theft at 3.3 times the rate of a typical town its size
Violent crime was down 6% in a year. The overall Safety Grade is C− (#57 of 91 in West Yorkshire), which means more crime per resident than 85% of UK towns, judged on crimes police recorded inside its built-up area from September 2023 to August 2026. For its size, it sits below 28% of the 645 UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people on crime per resident. Per 1,000 residents a year, 38.2 violent and sexual offences and 18.0 incidents of burglary, vehicle crime and damage were recorded.
Crimes and reports per 1,000 residents (Census 2021) a year, September 2023 to August 2026.
What stands out about safety in Yeadon
Violent crime fell over the year
In the 12 months to August 2026 police recorded 6% less violent crime per resident in Yeadon than in the year before; across UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people violent crime held steady. Burglary, vehicle crime and criminal damage held steady (towns its size: held steady). Trend ↓
More crime than many places its size
Of 350 UK towns of 10,000 to 19,000 people, Yeadon has the 271st lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Cudworth and Shafton, Penrith and Leominster, higher than Litherland, Louth and Redruth. Towns its size ↓
Neighbourhood ranks
25% of Yeadon’s residents live in a neighbourhood ranked in the highest-crime 20% of England (Indices of Deprivation 2025, crime domain), and 10% in the lowest-crime 30%. Neighbourhood ranks ↓
Written from the police.uk and government data on this page. Figures are crimes police recorded, not convictions.
Yeadon: C− for safety, and why
A fairly firm grade. Built on 2,404 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Yeadon against every UK town of 1,000 or more.
Per resident, against all UK towns; beside it, how it compares with towns its size.
What police recorded in the last 12 months
Against the typical town its size, Yeadon runs highest on bicycle theft (1.1 per 1,000 against 0.3), shoplifting (17.7 per 1,000 against 6.1) and robbery (1.4 per 1,000 against 0.5). Anti-social behaviour sits below it.
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 505 | 35.4 | 30.4 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 253 | 17.7 | 6.1 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 143 | 10 | 12.4 |
| Other theft | not graded | 128 | 9 | 4.4 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 83 | 5.8 | 6.2 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 83 | 5.8 | 2.8 |
| Public order | not graded | 81 | 5.7 | 5.4 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 64 | 4.5 | 2.4 |
| Other crime | not graded | 40 | 2.8 | 1.8 |
| Drugs | not graded | 35 | 2.5 | 1.9 |
| Robbery | Violent | 20 | 1.4 | 0.5 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 16 | 1.1 | 0.3 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 11 | 0.8 | 0.7 |
| Theft from the person | not graded | 7 | 0.5 | 0.3 |
“Violent” is police.uk’s violence and sexual offences (which includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury), robbery and possession of weapons. Anti-social behaviour isn’t a crime category; shoplifting and other theft happen mostly in shops and town centres rather than to residents, so neither counts in the grade.
September 2025 to August 2026, per 1,000 residents. The tick on each bar is the typical (median) town among UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people.
Towns its size: Yeadon comes 271st of 350
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kesgrave Suffolk | 14,947 | 13 | 3.3 | 2.7 | A |
| … | ||||||
| 68 | Ilkley West Yorkshire | 14,852 | 18.1 | 12.7 | 13 | B− |
| … | ||||||
| 105 | Garforth West Yorkshire | 15,148 | 23 | 10.9 | 7.9 | B− |
| … | ||||||
| 112 | Honley West Yorkshire | 14,399 | 26.4 | 8.6 | 5.3 | B− |
| … | ||||||
| 128 | Otley West Yorkshire | 14,549 | 25.6 | 11.3 | 9.3 | C+ |
| … | ||||||
| 268 | Litherland Merseyside | 18,752 | 42 | 13.5 | 8.8 | C− |
| 269 | Louth Lincolnshire | 17,415 | 41.3 | 14.7 | 14.6 | C− |
| 270 | Redruth Cornwall | 15,455 | 43.4 | 12.7 | 11.1 | C− |
| 271 | Yeadon West Yorkshire | 14,273 | 38.2 | 18 | 22.8 | C− |
| 272 | Royston South Yorkshire | 10,755 | 37.5 | 18.8 | 14.1 | C− |
| 273 | Maltby South Yorkshire | 16,305 | 37.9 | 18.7 | 11.1 | C− |
| 274 | Great Harwood Lancashire | 11,022 | 39.8 | 17.1 | 11.5 | D |
| … | ||||||
| 350 | Haverfordwest Dyfed | 12,088 | 91.4 | 28.6 | 32.3 | D− |
Safety letters rank against every UK town of 1,000 or more; the order here is context only.
Graded crime per 1,000 residents a year, September 2023 to August 2026, counting from the least: towns ranked near Yeadon, and others in West Yorkshire.
Crime in Yeadon per 1,000 residents
A crime isn’t a victim: one person can report several, and crimes in a town centre often involve visitors rather than residents.
And about 16 burglaries, vehicle crimes or acts of criminal damage, plus 28 shoplifting and theft reports, in the 12 months to August 2026. Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot is one recorded crime.
25% of Yeadon residents live in one of England’s highest-crime neighbourhoods
10% of residents live in the lowest-crime 30% of England’s neighbourhoods, and 25% in the highest-crime 20%. The crime domain scores the risk of violence, burglary, theft and criminal damage where people live, so it can read differently from the town-wide rate, which counts crimes where they happened.
Yeadon’s residents by the crime decile of their neighbourhood (LSOA, about 1,500 people) in the English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (crime domain), where 1 is the highest-crime 10% of England’s neighbourhoods and 10 the lowest.
Police in Yeadon identify a suspect less often than across UK towns
No suspect was identified for 75% of Yeadon’s burglaries, vehicle crimes and criminal damage, against 69% across UK towns, and for 20% of violent and sexual offences against 19%. Most violent cases close as “unable to prosecute” (61% here), usually because the victim doesn’t support a prosecution. About 6% of violent and 5% of household crimes reached court.
The latest outcome police.uk shows for each crime recorded in the first of the three years (September 2023 to August 2024), so most cases have closed. 846 crimes.
How crime in Yeadon has moved
“Towns its size” pools all UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people that police.uk covers each month (Greater Manchester has no data).
Rolling six-month rate, per 1,000 residents a year (longer windows for smaller places, where a few crimes swing a month). In the 12 months to August 2026 against the 12 before: violent -6% (towns its size +1%), homes and vehicles +3% (towns its size -2%), shoplifting and theft +23% (towns its size +1%), anti-social behaviour +51% (towns its size -4%).
Where in Yeadon police recorded crime
| At or near | Reports | Mostly |
|---|---|---|
| Supermarkets | 503 | 77% shoplifting & theft |
| Car parks | 35 | 54% violent |
| Petrol stations | 26 | 54% shoplifting & theft |
police.uk places each crime at an anonymous map point; some are named for the kind of place (a supermarket, a car park), and each row adds up every place of that kind in Yeadon. We show only these, never streets or homes.
Beside it, the public places police.uk named most often.
One person died in collisions on Yeadon’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 94 collisions with injuries inside Yeadon in five years, in which one person died (1 was a cyclist). 20 people were killed or seriously injured: 5 on foot and 5 on a bicycle.
That is about what is typical for UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people: at their median rate (0.9 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Yeadon’s size would see about 1 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Yeadon’s own rate (1.4) is context, not a ranking.
Counting serious injuries too, Yeadon had 28.0 people killed or seriously injured per 100,000 residents a year, above the median for UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people (23.8).
Casualties are counted where the collision happened, not where people lived: a main road through town adds through-traffic, and residents’ own risk on roads elsewhere isn’t here. Seriously injured uses the Department for Transport’s adjusted figures, which even out the police forces’ different ways of recording injuries. There’s no national rate here: more than half of road deaths in England and Wales (58%) happen outside every town’s built-up area. Source: DfT road casualty statistics (STATS19), 2021–2025.
Collisions police recorded inside Yeadon’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Yeadon
Yeadon records more graded crime per resident than every neighbour in the table. Rawdon, 1.1 miles away, records 21.7 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Yeadon’s 38.2.
Per 1,000 residents a year, the same three years. Tap a town for its safety page.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Where crimes happen, not where victims live. police.uk places each crime at a point near where it happened. Town centres with shops, stations, a hospital and nightlife record more crime per resident, and residents of nearby villages who come in to shop or go out are part of that count.
- Bigger towns record more per resident. Across UK towns, recorded crime per resident rises steeply with size, more than in the U.S., so a city’s grade sits low against the whole UK. The “towns its size” figures show where Yeadon sits among towns like it; they are context and don’t change the grade.
- Points are approximate. police.uk moves each point to the nearest of a set of anonymous map points, so crimes near the edge of the built-up area can fall either side of it.
Questions about safety in Yeadon
Is Yeadon safe?
Police recorded 38.2 violent and sexual offences and 18 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Yeadon’s built-up area). That earns a C− for safety: less crime per resident than 15% of UK towns. Among 350 UK towns of 10,000 to 19,000 people, Yeadon is 271st from the least crime.
Is crime going up in Yeadon?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime fell 6%, burglary, vehicle crime and damage held steady, shoplifting and theft rose 23% and anti-social behaviour rose 51%. Across UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people, violent crime held steady.
What is the most common crime in Yeadon?
Violence & sexual offences: 505 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came shoplifting (253) and other theft (128), with 143 reports of anti-social behaviour.
How does Yeadon compare with Leeds?
Leeds records 65.4 violent and sexual offences and 29.8 crimes against homes and vehicles per 1,000 residents a year, against Yeadon’s 38.2 and 18, over the same three years.
Sources: data.police.uk street-level crime, 36 months to August 2026, points inside the built-up-area boundary · ONS Census 2021, output areas summed to the ONS 2022 built-up area · MHCLG English Indices of Deprivation 2025, crime domain by LSOA (residents from ONS Census 2021) · Department for Transport road casualty statistics (STATS19), collisions 2021–2025, points inside the built-up-area boundary · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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